Celebration of life funeral services for Shonda Sturm will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 4, 2023 at the Prater-Lampton-Mills & Coffey Chapel with Pastor McCleary officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Shonda passed away Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, in Sawyer, Okla., at the age of 49.

Funeral services for Martin Herman, of Hugo, Okla., were held at 10 a.m. March 1, 2023 at Oak Grove Baptist Church in Hugo.

Edwin French Ellis, MD passed on Feb. 23, 2023 in his hometown of Antlers, Okla.

Funeral services for Tommy House, of Soper, Okla., will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 5, 2023 at Soper Gymnasium.

Funeral services for David “Snake” Hunter, of Hugo, Okla., were held at 10 a.m. Feb.

Mary Elizabeth (Wilson) Bell passed away from natural causes on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, at the age of 94. Born in Tahlina, Okla.,, Aug. 28, 1928, to Harlan and Bertha Wilson, where she grew up on the family farm on the outskirts of town. Mary was a proud resident of Hugo, and a member of Hugo High School’s class of 1946. Shortly after graduation, Mary eloped with Cecil Kenneth Bell, and the two shared a marriage of nearly 74 years. The couple were the proud parents of two daughters and a son: Lynda (Bell) Canezaro, Dianna (Bell) Guidry, and Kenneth Bell.

Graveside services for Margaret “Ceci” Cecile Wolfe were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023 at the Mt. Olivet Cemetery with Charles Baggett officiating. Ceci passed away Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, in Cheyenne, Wyo., at the age of 81.

Funeral services for Jimmy Dale Martin, of Paris, Texas, were held at 2 p.m. Feb.

Funeral services for David Hunter, of Hugo, Okla., are pending with Miller & Miller Funeral Home. David passed away Feb.

Funeral services for Dana Stanfield, of Hugo, Okla., are pending with Miller & Miller Funeral Home. Dana passed away Feb.